Hippocampus. The sit start overhanging arete right next to help the young. It's short but climbs really nicely, campusing off your bum to place the toe hook and is well worth doing. It needs a strong downgrade though from the 7C given. It's no harder than 7B with the toe hook, maybe even 7A+...
Quote from: Liamhutch89 on March 21, 2021, 09:53:51 pmHippocampus. The sit start overhanging arete right next to help the young. It's short but climbs really nicely, campusing off your bum to place the toe hook and is well worth doing. It needs a strong downgrade though from the 7C given. It's no harder than 7B with the toe hook, maybe even 7A+... I wonder whether this might be a height thing? As a shorter gent I thought getting the toe in was desperate, and even trying to do the move off the toe felt hard. Im no DG toe hook wizard though so maybe my skills are just lacking.
S - Stanage Plantation.
Where’s Hippocampus given 7C? I’m completely out of date with bouldering but it’s 7B in the Vertebrate book and V8 in the BMC one.
Quote from: cheque on March 21, 2021, 11:01:46 pmWhere’s Hippocampus given 7C? I’m completely out of date with bouldering but it’s 7B in the Vertebrate book and V8 in the BMC one.On UKC https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/stanage_plantation-101/hippocampus-437779
Quote from: Liamhutch89 Hippocampus. The sit start overhanging arete right next to help the young. It's short but climbs really nicely, campusing off your bum to place the toe hook and is well worth doing. It needs a strong downgrade though from the 7C given. It's no harder than 7B with the toe hook, maybe even 7A+... When Iain first climbed this it was without the toehook and basically went up the rhs. He ended up getting the high dish with his left then campusing for the top I think (hence the name). Deffo feels like 7C to me that way.It also seems that a fair number of ascents now are not from an actual sit start. Starting fully sat with your feet on the ramp on the right adds some tricky climbing, not sure if it pushes the toehook way to 7C though. Either way the difficulty is very much dependant on reach. It'd be good to see the original reclimbed. They seem sufficiently distinct to me for the new beta to be called Hippocampus Lefthand and get it's own grade.